I figure any fellow n00blets oughta be warned that cleaning dust from your cooler(s) every now and again is probably a wise decision. Had a look today and my GPU was at about 70 idle. Removed, cleared all the dust out, and got it back down to 50. Yikes!
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Dusty Graphics
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That's quite warm. 
What GPU is it?
What GPU is it?
I fried my old 9800Pro because of dust. Had it on the floor under my desk without a case and didn't clean it for a couple months. It was flashed to XT, then one day when a mate of mine was using it to play CSS, it started artifacting, then froze.. So he rebooted and didn't get a picture at all! I touched the card to make sure it was seated properly and burnt my hand on it it was that hot.
My 68gt was running at 110 under load, so I though the fan was on it's way out and bought an artic silencer and whilst dismantleing the (loud) stock cooler I found that the side of the heatsking which is connected to the fan was completley blocked with fluff and dust., card looked like it was running on HS alone.
Needless to say though the artic silencer was well wroth the moeny spent anyway.
PS - Get yourself some spray air and blow it through the artic cooler heat pipe back into the PC and it will blow all the dust back out of the fan housing (obvioously back into the PC!!), do it with card removed to avoid that!!!!
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Needless to say though the artic silencer was well wroth the moeny spent anyway.
PS - Get yourself some spray air and blow it through the artic cooler heat pipe back into the PC and it will blow all the dust back out of the fan housing (obvioously back into the PC!!), do it with card removed to avoid that!!!!
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nbkpsycho said:Arctic coolers are really hard to clean imo
my galaxy glacier 6800nu has an artic cooler (i think), i had to take the whole thing apart to clean it, still, when I put it back together I used AS5 on all the thermal contacts and dropped temperatures further (possibly, I suppose.. I didn't test clean and without the AS5).
